Music:
Velvet Underground, Sunset Rubdown, Xiu Xiu, The Microphones/Mount Eerie, Liars, ESG, Neil Young, Songs:Ohia/Magnolia Electric Co, Explosions in the Sky, Russian Circles, Slayer, Unearth, Joanna Newsom, Damien Jurado, Isis, Loretta Lynn, Of Montreal, Sam Cooke, Animal Collective, Broken Social Scene, Feist, Dinosaur Jr, R. Kelly, Wu-Tang Clan, Arthur Russell, Modest Mouse, Akron/Family, Do Make Say Think, Stevie Wonder, Deerhoof, CAN, Clinic, Jay-Z, Clipse, Broadcast...lots of things. Leah Woldman, David Bello and His God Given Right, R.B Reed, Corespondents, The Maldives, Grand Hallway, Widower, Donkey Flamingo, Brittain Ashford, The Curious Mystery, Doomsday 1999 and other friends.
Movies:
Pierrot Le Fou, Weekend, Contempt, A Woman is a Woman, Celine and Julie Go Boating, The Mother and the Whore, Psycho, Vertigo, Come and See, Days of Heaven, Holy Mountain, Lost Highway, Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, Friday the 13th, Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie, Sleepaway Camp, California Split, A Woman Under the Influence, Persona, Wild Strawberries, All The Real Girls, His Girl Friday, Spirit of the Beehive, Twentynine Palms, Fat Girl, Brown Bunny, Wet Hot American Summer, The Ten. Shorts by Stan Brakhage, Michael Snow, Chris Marker, Maya Deren, Harry Smith...among other things. Clearly I don't get out much.
Television:
30 Rock, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Mr. Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development
Books:
Franny and Zooey, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close, Disgrace, Independence Day (a novel by Richard Ford...not the novelization of the Will Smith movie), Sound and the Fury, Breakfast of Champions, anything by Raymond Carver, stories by Breece D'J Pancake, Flannery O'Connor.